The Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) has announced that, following the increase in Excise Duty, cigarette prices will be raised under four categories starting from January 11, 2025.

Following a recommendation by a specialist doctor, R. Duminda Silva has been transferred from the prison hospital to a general ward at the Welikada Prison, Prisons Commissioner and media spokesman Gamini B. Dissanayake said.

The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this.

A concerning trend of young Sri Lankan women being abandoned by foreign husbands shortly after marriage has come to light following a recent submission made by a lawyer before a Colombo court.

A judge has sentenced US President-elect Donald Trump to an ’’unconditional discharge,’’ bringing to an end the first criminal trial of a former US president.

Port City Colombo celebrated a milestone today with the groundbreaking of the Marina Development, a joint venture between Browns Investments PLC, the strategic investment arm of LOLC Group and China Harbour Engineering Company.

Thirteen schoolchildren from Tamil Maha Vidyalayam in Hatton were admitted to the Dickoya Primary Hospital this afternoon (10) after experiencing symptoms of food poisoning.

Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia, Udayanga Weeratunga, who was arrested over assault of a neighbor, has been remanded until January 17 after being produced before the Nugegoda Magistrate’s Court.

The government today refuted claims that Rs. 7 million was spent for the inauguration of the ’Clean Sri Lanka’ programme held at the Presidential Secretariat recently.

A video circulating on social media shows a wild elephant blocking a vehicle carrying a group of foreign tourists and scaring them while searching for food.

A wild elephant had been knocked down to death at Karadipuwal area between Puttalam and Eluwankulama Railway Stations in the early hours of last morning by a goods train transporting limestone to the Palaviya cement factory in the Puttalam District.

Claiming that he had no connections with his brother, former Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanaykkara said that he lodged the first complaint regarding financial frauds involving foreign employments.

Ceylon Workers’ Congress President Senthil Thondaman met Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and had a cordial discussion on January 9. He also extended wishes for his birthday at Bhubaneswar in India.

Donald Trump has said that a meeting is being arranged between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Indian authorities say they have arrested a Canadian man at Delhi airport for carrying a crocodile skull in his luggage.

Over 100 children have been diagnosed with diabetes, raising serious concerns over the rising rates of the condition among younger populations.

The attempts to import red rice from India failed as red rice was not available in India, Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe said yesterday.

The results of the 2024 Grade 5 Scholarship Examination are expected to be released between February 10 and 12, Examinations Commissioner General Amith Jayasundara said.

High Court Judge Ranga Srinath Abeywickrema Dissanayake has been appointed as the new Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, effective today, by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

A junta airstrike in Myanmar has killed at least 41 people and injured 50 others in the Rakhine State, local media reported on Thursday.

A man accused of sexually assaulting a woman aboard an international flight has been banned from leaving the country while his court case is underway.

TikTok will appear before the US Supreme Court on Friday in a last-ditch effort to overturn a ban, in a case testing the limits of national security and free speech.

Following Rohingya arrivals and intelligence reports about plans for further 100,000 such cases, the police have begun investigations to ascertain whether any Sri Lankan is involved behind this human smuggling racket, a Minister said yesterday.

The public consultation session on the Western Province electricity tariff revision will be held at 9 a.m. today at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) announced.